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Indian fans are gloating about it being a draw due to the forecast of heavy showers ... and they probably wonder why they are the most hated supporters in World Cricket
Maybe its just the online mob and the rest are decent people, who knows, I blame Trump.Excellent game thus far, fightback by Indian was epic till the new ball had the kiwi quicks massacring the middle and bottom order. Have a feeling all the Indian batters avoided getting a double duck, might need to check that.
Very disappointed no test matches England v Australia latest tour
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Blaming Modi seems more plausible.
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Well done NZ, love to see it. 
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An all-round excellent performance by the BCs, holding their nerve even when the Indian batsmen were seriously threatening to pile on a troublesome total for us to chase, then going for the throat once Southee got the breakthrough. Similar steel nerves by Young and Ravindra on the chase.
Great to shut the Indian crowds up with a commanding win.
Great to shut the Indian crowds up with a commanding win.
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We're looking good in the final...
holy shit, second wicket as I type, 2 in 2 balls
holy shit, second wicket as I type, 2 in 2 balls
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Great weekend for NZ cricket topped off with a win in the T20 world cup final.
That puts the steam on the coffee.
That puts the steam on the coffee.
If only Waikato had held on against the Wellington Lions in the NPC semi - it would have been the perfect weekend.
Well done the White Ferns - from a laughing stock to a Blue Chip in one tournament.
Liam Lawson to come.
Well done the White Ferns - from a laughing stock to a Blue Chip in one tournament.
Liam Lawson to come.
I drink and I forget things.
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Well done keewees, excellent batting performance.
Good start from SA in the chase, but 2 tight overs after the powerplay bought the crucial wicket that effectively ended SA chances
Good start from SA in the chase, but 2 tight overs after the powerplay bought the crucial wicket that effectively ended SA chances
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Fantastic performance from the Black Craps, with standout efforts from Henry, O'Rourke and Ravindra. The conditions helped, but so did getting the team selection more or less right. It'll be even tougher from here on in though — it's dollars to donuts the next test track will turn square from day 1. One hopes this doesn't bring about a temptation to reintroduce Santner.
As for the NZ women, well, good on them. When you get a great gobful of good luck dumped on you, it's important to take full advantage. Which they did, to their great credit. But it does show the lottery of T20 cricket when quite possibly the worst team to ever win a world championship comes out on top (I'd be more than happy to be proved wrong on this if they come out and beat, or even just be consistently competitive with, Australia this summer...but I ain't holding my breath).
As for the NZ women, well, good on them. When you get a great gobful of good luck dumped on you, it's important to take full advantage. Which they did, to their great credit. But it does show the lottery of T20 cricket when quite possibly the worst team to ever win a world championship comes out on top (I'd be more than happy to be proved wrong on this if they come out and beat, or even just be consistently competitive with, Australia this summer...but I ain't holding my breath).
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Lady Proteas forgot to wear ball box. Not great to see the women choke on their koek sisters.
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Bangladesh vs South Africa, 1st Test at Dhaka
BAN 106
SA 99/5
still 20 over left to bowl on day 1. This game wont be lasting more than 3 days.
140/6 at stumps.
BAN 106
SA 99/5
still 20 over left to bowl on day 1. This game wont be lasting more than 3 days.
140/6 at stumps.
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SA 308.
Kyle Verreynne 114, MUlder 54.
lead 202
Kyle Verreynne 114, MUlder 54.
lead 202
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Bangles now 59/3 in their 2nd innings
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SL battle well to 283/7 at stumps.
lead of 81, if they can get another 40 it could be enough for SA batsmen to panic and fold.
lead of 81, if they can get another 40 it could be enough for SA batsmen to panic and fold.
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360461862 ... double-ton
Perhaps it was a case of Chad Bowes taking the frustration of missing out on the Black Caps’ latest white-ball team out on Otago.
The Canterbury opener blasted the fastest List A (limited overs cricket) double ton in history in Christchurch on Thursday, notching the world record in just 104 balls at a sun-drenched Hagley Oval.
That bettered the 114 balls Australian Travis Head (South Australia) and Indian Narayan Jagadeesan (Tamil Nadu) scored their double centuries in.
Bowes, who has played six ODIs and 11 Twenty20s for the Black Caps, also became just the second player in history to score a Ford Trophy double century.
Former Black Cap Jamie How (222 during the 2012/13 summer) is the only other player to do so.
South African-born Bowes appeared to be playing on a different surface to his Canterbury teammates, which included Mitch Hay and Zak Foulkes, who hours earlier were confirmed in New Zealand’s white-ball squad for next month’s T20 and ODI series in Sri Lanka.
Bowes pasted Otago’s bowlers to all parts of the vast Hagley Oval, clobbering seven sixes and a staggering 27 fours before he was dismissed for 205 off 110 balls.
He accounted for the overwhelming majority of Canterbury’s 343-9 after they were sent in by the visitors, with six players failing to reach double-figures and Foulkes (49 not out) the next highest scorer.
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Ta
For some reason they love Santner, reckon the Bogan Prince himself, Shane Warne, couldn't have dislodged him from the team.
England also in action against Pakistan, and drinks o'clock with the missus who has decided I should join her new business venture.
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TBH, they're much of a muchness as bowlers, and Santner bats better. That said, NZ already has two left armers in Patel and Ravindra, so Sodhi would have provided a useful point of difference.
SA win by 7 wickets. Our first Test win in Asia in a decade!Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 3:11 pm BA battle well to 283/7 at stumps.
lead of 81, if they can get another 40 it could be enough for SA batsmen to panic and fold.
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Henry has a 'glute niggle'. Uh huh. More likely is that they remember the massive sad packed by Southee the last time he was left out of a test team and are scared of it happening again.
